St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-06

pinnacle human can reach he would
stand there" Mr.. Davitt arose and
was received with tumultuouS applause.
s''Come, come" said Mr.. PoWderly,
tone good one to have it out and then
to listen" Three great cheers rang
through the building and Mr.. Davitt
delivered his address, speaking from
manuscript:
DAvITTs ADDRESS
thank you for the honor you have con-
ferred in receiving me in this general assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor. In this you
speak i'll advance the sympathy / trust will
find official expression in your proceedings
There are many reasons why should obtain
for Ireland this expression from the most po-
tential labor organization on the globe. In
Ireland the struggle is of labor against mo-
nopoly, trying to substitute the principles of
agra1fan Justice; trying to obtain system
better in sympathy with the laws of justice
than the cold calculations of political econ
omy: In making these efforts we are only
seeking what is exactly consistent with the
principles of the Knights of Labor. Our
struggle has aided the cause of reform every
where, and the English, Scotch and Welsh
toilers have recognized this to our credit. In
this country public attention has been drawn
to the danger of allowing English principles
to creep in, and already railroad corporations
and landgrabbers are experiencing new diff
ficulties in robbing the great public. We
claim your sympathy on other grounds. The
struggle of
THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES
is the same everywhere and is common to
every industrial community in every civil
lied land to-day. 1t is the chief problem of
modern craftsmanship, and as the struggle
asserts the right of labor, it is the fight of
industrial humanity i'll every land under the
sun. We want to keep our people at home,
to stem the tide of enforced emigration. We
have room for Is, 100000 population; now
there are only 100000 in the country,
though forty years ago it had 5000, 600.
This rate will soon depopulate it. Ireland
may have become Synonymous with poverty
and discomfort. But as our country has not
slnned against civilization in fighting to be
free. we think we have right to public rec
OgnitlOn in our endeayor to possess our pat
rimony. England's territorial aristocracy is
menaced by our movement and deems eX
patriatiOn the only sure relief from their
danger. Refusing to acqulesce in a cowardly
subserviency, is one of our crimes, and i'm
Imagination becomes the means by which
Englands policy of eXpatriation is carried
| out. No country stands more in need of
labor than ours,yet England's policy drives it
across the Atlantic for the employment
needed at home. If Ireland were overpopu-
lated, or if the eminent necessity exists for
the reduction of her population, there
could be
NO REASONABLE OBJECTIONS
to emigration. But the reverse is the case,
and her millions of acres hunger for the la
Dor driven from her shores. Our peoples
resources are exhausted before eviction COM
pels them to choose between pauper poor
houses and emigration. These eXpatriated
emigrants are compelled by the force of cir
cumstances to compete with American labor
in the seaboard cities and thus England kills
two birds with one stone-ridding herself of
the Celtic population on the one hand and
on the other reducing American labor prices
by overstocking the labor market. The adj
yocateS of emigration are not friendly to
your cause. Intelligent English workingmen
are as much opposed to this as we are. If
men must be forced out, let it be the idle and
do-nothing class and not the toilers. Should
you officially express your disapprOval of
this system, you may offend the arstocratic
classes, but not the toiling millions Of Erl-
rope. Victory for the enemies of monopoly
in Ireland would stiffen the back of the labor
are attentively watching this unequalled con.
vention. In all European countries organi-
cations have enemies in the government as
well as in monopolies, but happily,
in America this is not so. The
spectacle of this assembly to the
terest and expectancy. Your body has
grown almost to the size of the executive
government without interfering or being in
terfered with, and gives hope to your less
favored brethren across the Atlantic.
THE MoNoPOLIES OF EUROPE
view with alarm your strength and courage,
and in no part Of the globe have you more
enemies than in London, the money power
center of the world. What it controls:
Armies and fleets from London go to force
may grow rich upon the traffic. London
hombarded and crushed Alexandria, and the
popular movement of the fella, because the
interests of the London bondholders de-
manded the continued slavery of the labor
ing classes of Egypt. And it is to-day Lon
don wealth that is inspiring the governments
coercive policy in Ireland. Trial by
| jury is lost public speech sup